Maternal recognition of pregnancy.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Symposium on Maternal Recognition of Pregnancy (1978 : London, England)

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 64.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 64 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnancy--Immunological aspects--Congresses.

Pregnancy.

Obstetrical endocrinology--Congresses.

Obstetrical endocrinology.

Ovum implantation--Congresses.

Ovum implantation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Excerpta Medica, 1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

Maternal Recognition of Pregnancy; Contents; Introduction; Comparative aspects of blastocyst-endometrial interactions at implantation; Discussion; Changes in the surface of the mouse blastocyst at implantation; Discussion; The hormonal control of implantation; Discussion; Hormonal control of implantation in the rat: inhibition by luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone and its analogues; Discussion; Significance of maternal uterine proteins in the establishment of pregnancy; Discussion; Molecular and cellular aspects of facultative delayed implantation in the mouse; Discussion

Hormonal control of embryonic diapause and reactivation in the tammar wallaby Discussion; Human chorionic gonadotropin and maternal recognition of pregnancy; Discussion; Blastocyst oestrogen synthesis and the maternal recognition of pregnancy; Discussion; The nature and role of pregnancy-associated antigens and the endocrinology of early pregnancy in the ewe; Discussion; Antiluteolytic effect of the embryo; Discussion; Maternal immunological recognition mechanisms during pregnancy; Discussion

Maternal recognition of pregnancy and immunological implications of trophoblast-endometrium interactions in equids Discussion; Immunological interference with the maternal recognition of pregnancy in primates; Discussion; When a conception fails to become a pregnancy; Discussion; Final general discussion; Is there maternal recognition of pregnancy before implantation?; Signals in ectopic pregnancy; Progesterone metabolism in early pregnancy; Uterine secretion of prostaglandins; Specific uterine proteins in pregnancy; Chairman's summing-up; Index of contributors; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613694218

9781280783821

1280783826

9780470718148

0470718145

9780470720479

0470720476

OCLC:

797918430